Prologues of the Treasure of historical art, prepared from testimonies of eighteen writers both ancient and modern, including six (taken) volumes of the Historical Method, mainly by Jean Bodin (1579)

Abstract

This paper is a translation into Spanish, with notes and commentaries, of Artis historicae Penus (Johannes Wolf [compiler] and Pietro Perna [typographer], 1579), the first historiographical anthology of late European Renaissance. This anthology was part of a new unique editorial project regarding its purpose and scope. In the brief presentation essay that precedes the translation, four aspects regarding the anthology and its authors will be addressed: (i) paratextual layout, (ii) biographies, (iii) political and religious contexts, and (iv) epistemological and pedagogical frameworks.